Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to Washington as a Congressman and there, right across from the White House, shot down and killed his young wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, son of the man who had written The Star-Spangled Banner. Biographer Swanberg suggests that Sickles' virtue was offended less than his pride. The outcome of Sickles' trial for the murder of Key was that the public applauded him for the shooting, then execrated him when he "forgave" his wife by living with her in the same house...
...Empire News waved the banner of "freedom of the press," and the World's Press News asked pointedly why the Official Secrets Act, if used against Pierrepoint, should not be applied to Sir Winston Churchill for publishing some of the "closest secrets of the war." Gamely, the Empire News carried on with the series, though "deleting . . . those passages which seem to arise from knowledge gained by Mr. Pierrepoint in the course of his official duties." That left Pierrepoint little of the noose fit to print. This week Pierrepoint reached the end of his rope. Announced the Empire News...
...Your Preacher. Few trumpets indeed were sounding in the Southern churches last week. Most ministers were like Layman Bryant-troubled. But they found other things to talk about than the problem that plagued Bryant. Most of the vocal few were vocal on the side of the lily-white banner of segregation; Citizens' Council rallies could usually count on some Protestant clergyman to bless their gatherings. The Rev. Earl Anderson, for instance, 63-year-old pastor of Dallas' Munger Place Baptist Church, insisted that: "Now is the time for Citizens' Councils to put pressure on your preacher...
...Communists' Yiddish-language daily) and went back to writing. By 5:30 p.m. all the Worker's copy was closed and sent to the composing room of F & D Printing Co., the separate corporation in the same building that prints the Worker. Crowed the Worker's banner headline next morning...
...picture captioned "Elsa Martinelli: at last, perfection," dominates the cover of the May issue of Male Publishing Corporation Brief magazine, while the article featured at the top of the page claims "I'm sick of dying every day." But the banner headline is reserved for "Harvard's $100,000 Love Report...